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            Pages: 232
          
                              
            ISBN: 9780300064599
          
                              
            Pub Date: December 1997
          
                                                            
                          Imprint: Yale University Press
                      
                              
            Illustrations: 105 b/w and col figs
          
                    
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        The strange story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum and the Hidden Masterpiece at Canford School. This volume includes previously unpublished photographs, illustrations from rare nineteenth century sources, and passages from the diary of Lady Charlotte Guest (cousin of Austen Henry Layard). With an interesting discussion of the English reception of Ninevite art, and the Assyrian Revival, the book continues with the events surrounding the rediscovery of the Ninevah Porch and the last of Layard's sculptures recently sold at auction.
      
      
       
    